Major General YK Gera (Retd) - Consultant (Research)

Major General YK Gera is a telecommunication Engineer. He is a graduate from the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, and has done the Long Defence Management Course from the College of Defence Management, Secunderabad and the National security Management course from the National Defence University, Washington (USA). He is an alumnus of the National Defence College, New Delhi.

He served as the Deputy Director and Editor of the USI for more than a decade. His duties also involved overseeing research project studies by research scholars. He is working as Consultant (Research) at the USI.

He has authored book titled "Non Conventional Threat Perceptions in the Indian Context", and edited the books "Peace and Stability in Afghanistan : The Way Ahead" and "Peace and Stability in Asia-Pacific Region : Assessment of the Security Architecture". He has travelled widely.

Col SC Tyagi (Retd), AD (Research)

An infantry officer, post graduated from Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and IIM, Ahmedabad and Indian Institute of Human Rights, New Delhi. He commanded a Rajput battalion. He was an instructor in National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakvasla and Army War College, Mhow. He raised 15 Corps Battle School at Khreuh and was its first Commandant. Later he was Col GS of a Mountain Division.

He was awarded the Admiral RD Katari Chairs of Excellence for research at the USI. He authored "The Fourth Estate – A Force Multiplier for Indian Army with the backdrop of Kargil".

After retirement from the Army he served with the Ministry of Communication and IT and handled Centre for e-Governance for three years. He has also been the Operation Head of a large IT Company.

Brig AS Cheema – Senior Research Fellow

Commissioned in Armoured Corps, Brig AS Cheema obtained his MSc and M Phil from the Chennai University in 'Defence and Strategic Studies'. His fellowship on the 'Historical Account of the Sixty Years of the Kashmir Conflict', carried out under the aegis of The USI is presently under publication. having joined the USI in Mar 2012, as Senior Fellow, he is currently coordinating the ongoing research on the China specific Studies at the USI.

Colonel RK Tyagi - Senior Research Fellow

He is a serving Army officer and presently a Senior Research Fellow at the USI-CS3. His area of interest is cyber warfare.

Colonel GG Pamidi - Senior Research Fellow

He is a serving Army officer and presently a Senior Research Fellow at the USI-CS3. His areas of interests are nuclear doctrine, strategy and contours of conflict in a nuclear environment. He is an avid reader and contributes regularly to the various professional magazines.

Commander Sandeep Dewan - Research Fellow

He is a serving naval officer and presently a Research Fellow at the CS3-USI. His fields of interest are Maritime aspects of Indo China relations, The Tibet dispute and matters maritime.

He was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 01 Jan 1987 and thereafter served onboard various classes of Indian Naval Ships as a non specialist and thereafter a specialist Navigation and Direction Officer. He has served as the Flotilla Operations Officer on the staff of the Naval Officer-in-Charge, Andhra Pradesh and as the Command Operations Officer of the Western Naval Command of the Indian Navy. He has also done an instructional tenure at the National Defence Academy and served as a directing staff at the Defence Services Staff College for four years. A graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington he has a Master of Philosophy and a post graduate degree in Defence and Strategic Studies from the Madras University.

Group Captain AK Agarwal

He is a serving officer in the IAF and is presently a Senior Research Fellow at the USI – CS3. The officer was commissioned on the 04 Jun 82 as a pilot in the fighter stream. He has over 2400 hours of flying. The officer has served in various field and staff appointments. He is a graduate from the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and has undergone the Higher Defence Management Course at CDM.

Lt Col Vivek Dhall

He is a serving Army officer who is currently a research fellow at the USI-CS3. He was commissioned in 1988 in GARHWAL RIFLES and has served in various sectors including Jammu and Kashmir; Counter Insurgency and high altitude areas. He is doing research project on "India's Energy Security".

Wing Commander RK Singh

He is a serving Air Force Officer, who is currently with the USI of India pursuing Research Fellowship on "Military Applications of Space". He graduated in Science in 1983 and did his Post Graduation in "Defence and Strategic Studies" (Gold Medalist) in 2002 from Allahabad University. He has done his PhD. He has undergone courses on different aspects of Disaster Management from Air Force Institute of NBC Protection, National Institute of Disaster Management New Delhi, National Civil Defence College Nagpur, World Bank Institute and IGNOU.

Lt Col Harish Katoch, Research Fellow

Lt Col Harish Katoch is a serving Armoured Corps Officer. Presently he is carrying out research on the subject "Enhancing Efficiency in the Organisation by TA-isation".

He served in Sri Lanka as part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF). Later he served with the Special Frontier Force in High Altitude Areas.